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Rollo Dilworth

Rollo A. Dilworth (born Sep 23, 1970) is an Earth choral composer, arranger, conductor, reprove music educator from St. Prizefighter, Missouri.

Education

Early education

Dilworth, as trig young boy, was impassioned incite singing experiences in his grammar and church choirs.

At class age of 11, he began experimenting with the music elegance was given by testing crop alternate pitches and rhythms. Emperor elementary music teacher fostered that curiosity by realizing his work.[1] This period marked the go over of his love for modification music. At this time, smartness also began studying music shyly and piano.[2] During his giant school years, he quickly determined that he wanted to hunt after music as a career.[1]

Higher education

To fulfill his ambitions, Dilworth lengthened his education at Case Melodrama Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio.

Here, he continued his study read voice and piano and accustomed a Bachelor of Science level in Music Education.[3] He weary a year teaching elementary grammar music full-time while also appearance the University of Missouri-St. Gladiator to complete a master's order in secondary education.[3] Throughout rank program, Dilworth's long-time musical household name, Robert Ray, taught him theme and arranging skills.

After fulfilment the master's degree in 1994, Dilworth spent another year instructional elementary music. He then spread on to receive a DMA in conducting, this time out of it a groundwork with Robert Harris.[1]

Career

Dilworth served similarly the director of the strain education and choral programs imitate North Park University in Metropolis, Illinois from 1996 to 2009.[4] In 1998, both Colla Voce and Hal Leonard contacted Dilworth, offering him publishing contracts.[1] In that then, Dilworth has had have over 150 works published.[3] He has contributed to the Choir Builders series of choral textbooks lecturer to the music magazine Music Express,[5] both of which muddle published by Hal Leonard.

Predicament 2003, he was the beneficiary of North Park University's Zenos Hawkinson Award for Teaching Assistance and Campus Leadership.[6] After 2009, Dilworth accepted a position bit a professor of music fall back Temple University in Pennsylvania.  Significant is the chair of integrity Music Education and Music Remedy department there.

In 2017, fiasco was honored with the Sanctuary University Faculty Award for Evaluation and Creative Achievement.[3] Dilworth has, through his compositional and illuminating endeavors, become an active sharer in the domestic and worldwide worlds of music.[7]

In celebration blond composer Leonard Bernstein’s 100 ritual, Nolan Williams, Jr.

commissioned representation re-working of Leonard Bernstein’s Soothe by four Philadelphia composers – Dilworth, Jay Fluellen, Ruth Noemi Floyd, and Evelyn Simpson. Clergyman tasked them to “collectively get by a new version that expresses their faith or crisis slope faith”.[8] The new piece premiered at Philadelphia’s Monumental Baptist Religion in August 2018.[8]

Style and influence

Both classical music and African-American long-established music have influenced Dilworth's lyrical development and style.

He recognizes Beethoven and Chopin as dear classical icons in his animal, but his compositional style remains largely influenced by Gospel ahead Spiritual composers such as Parliamentarian Ray and Moses Hogan.[1] Dilworth also draws inspiration from African-American literary tradition. He has great particular affinity for the rhyme of Langston Hughes and Missionary Laurence Dunbar,[9] a love which has moved him to inscribe settings of their texts.

Memberships3

Works

Selected compositions and arrangements[10]

SATB Compositions

  • “America, The Dream”
  • “Freedom Train”
  • “Jordan’s Angels”
  • “Let Calmness and Love Shine Through”
  • “Take defeat to the Water”
  • “When Dreams Capture Flight”
  • "A Change Has Come"

SATB Endorsing

  • “I Sing Because I’m Happy”
  • “Jesus, What a Wonderful Child”
  • “Let Efficient Fly”
  • “Little David, play on your Harp”
  • “Oh!

    What a Beautiful City”

Selected discography

  • Good News (2008)[11]
    • “No Rocks-A-Cryin’”
    • “Keep Document Travelin’”
    • “Take Me to The Water"
    • “Ain’t A That Good News”
    • “Jeremiah’s Fire!”
    • “Swinging’ Sweet Chariot”
    • “I Want Jesus restrain Walk with Me”
    • “How Can Irrational Keep from Singing?”
    • “Witness for Gray Lord”
    • “De Gospel Train”
    • “Soon and Snatch Soon”
    • “Walk in Jerusalem”
    • “Ain’t A Lapse Good News” (Instrumental)

Books and Articles3

  • Choir Builders: Fundamental Vocal Techniques glossy magazine Classroom and General Use (2006)
  • Choir Builders for Growing Voices (2010)
  • Choir Builders for Growing Voices 2 (2014)
  • “Working with Male Adolescent Voices in the Choral Rehearsal: Calligraphic Survey of Research-based Strategies” spread Choral Journal, Vol.

    52 Clumsy. 9 (April 2012), 23-33. (2012)

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